Commvault Systems Inc. today introduced a disaster recovery service that companies can use to restore cloud and on-premises applications in the event of an outage.

Publicly traded Commvault sells data protection products that enable organizations to keep workloads and business records available even when their technology infrastructure encounters technical issues. The company posted revenues of $173 million last quarter, beating analysts’ expectations. 

The new service announced today, called Commvault Disaster Recovery, allows information technology teams to create backup replicas of workloads and quickly launch them if the original goes offline. It’s not the company’s first entry into the product category. Commvault already offered disaster recovery features in a bundled form that was combined with other tools, but it has decided to launch a standalone service as part of a recent effort to align its portfolio with customer requirements. 

“The reason why we are kind of reconstructing our portfolio [is] so that we have these very granular, use case-aligned data management services,” Ranga Rajagopalan, Commvault’s vice president of products, told SiliconANGLE in July. “Customers don’t have the same data management needs all the time. So they can pick and choose the exact solution they need.”

On launch, Commvault Disaster Recovery can be used to protect workloads powered by VMware Inc.’s popular virtualization software. The service supports VMware deployments across all the major public clouds as well as on-premises hardware.

Commvault says IT teams can launch a backup replica to take over from a malfunctioning workload in one click. To reduce downtime further, the service automatically looks for outages to help administrators more quickly identify service disruptions and respond to them.

Commvault has included so-called copy management features to help IT teams work with their backup workload replicas. The features allow administrators to test if a backup would be fully usable should it ever be needed. It’s also possible to apply replicas originally created for disaster recovery purposes to other use cases. For example, using Commvault Disaster Recovery, a replica of a retailer’s quarterly sales logs could be shared with an internal development team working on a new sales analytics application.

Commvault Disaster Recovery is generally available. It was announced today alongside several updates to the company’s Metallic backup service, including expanded support for Microsoft Corp. workloads and new regulatory compliance features.

Rajagopalan and two other senior executives appeared on SiliconANGLE Media’s theCUBE in July to explain what guides the company’s product roadmap:

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